Fox News: libraries can’t show anti-religious art

In this interview from Fox News some guy comes on and suggests that libraries don’t have the legal right to have anti-religious art in their exhibits. Feel free to comment and criticize. Correct me if I am wrong but I do not think that the man manages to string together a coherent legal argument. It came across as white noise to me. Am I missing something? I think it would be absurd if anything religious or non-religious was prohibited from libraries. I do not have a problem with religious art being sold at libraries, government institution or not. Pictures of crosses, or art with other religious imagery, is in my opinion perfectly acceptable if it is being sold _as art_ in a library, and not being used to promote religion. The same is true of anti-religious art. It becomes a problem only when the state is putting religion (or irreligion) where it doesn’t belong, like in schools, on the money, or in the pledge of allegiance. In that case, it is simply a promotion of religion by the government. Here, we are not talking about the promotion or religion or irreligion. We are talking about art being sold at a library. It would be very strange indeed if libraries were prohibited from holding items that have any implications for religion (positive or negative). The reason libraries are allowed to carry religious books, like the bible, is because they are not being used to promote religion. They are being held as part of the libraries collection -this is an acceptable purpose for …

25 comments on “Fox News: libraries can’t show anti-religious art”

SaxonianValley

August 17, 2010 at 1:59 am

Your religion is the main reason for making jokes about you (USA). It`s really stupid to believe in the bible, especially for adult persons. Educate yourself a bit more in sciences (not in fairy tales)!
Greets from Europe 😉

brink6

August 17, 2010 at 2:23 am

wow…..religious freaks!!!

megaepicexplosion

August 17, 2010 at 3:04 am

“If it said Musilims or Homosexuals are stupid, people would be outraged it would be taken down” lol most idiots around here hate those two groups no one would give a crap.

ManicEightBall

August 17, 2010 at 3:33 am

I don’t know the exact circumstances, here, but I love seeing the Christian right being forced to argue the other side of this issue. Tell me more about how the government shouldn’t be involved in promote any ideas related to religion!

Eilor2112

August 17, 2010 at 4:18 am

@bmkrox1999 It would be fine if it weren’t in a public place. However, public libraries are owned by the state, and the Constitution states that no state can affiliate itself with one religion over another or declare a state religion. It isn’t a big deal, it’s just a slight violation of constitutional right.

smartg159

August 17, 2010 at 4:38 am

if u can have religious txt you can have anti religion too.. fucken morons go fuck yourself!!!

crackerkiller89

August 17, 2010 at 4:39 am

@sneeptheelite Stop projecting please. It does not make you look smart.

deego86

August 17, 2010 at 4:48 am

@killbot9 well said man

gundrag000

August 17, 2010 at 4:56 am

Shit Bible.

thewhitebrazilian

August 17, 2010 at 5:40 am

god the first ammendment in this country is GONE.

sneeptheelite

August 17, 2010 at 5:42 am

@crackerkiller89
That just makes you even more of a retard.

bmkrox1999

August 17, 2010 at 5:51 am

so people can believe whatever they want and critisize a religion but yet we can’t even have a piece of artwork that isn’t even JUDGING a religion. it’s ART. we have artwork that has naked people in it, which i have nothing against, but yet we can’t have the one shown above. nice going america. just goes to show what we’ve become.

bmkrox1999

August 17, 2010 at 5:53 am

i totally agree w/ u neotropic9. but america has become a country of puritans, things like this happen. i have nothing wrong with religion, i’m a caholic, but my point is apparently we’re allowed to make judgements on other people’s religions. what i mean by that is that i go to a public school and everybody is against catholics; they all think we worship mary. which, we don’t so who are they to say? continued…